Metadata is ubiquitous and it is raison d'être for libraries as it forms their core functions. Whether they use MARC, Dublin Core, MODS, METS, PREMIS, AACR-2, RDA, FRBR, Linked Data or BIBFRAME (standards/tools), the chief business of libraries is to describe the great diversity of information resources (print or electronic books, articles, reports, datasets, cultural heritage objects or artifacts) with metadata that reflects the heterogeneity inherent in users – hence the case for a mixed metadata approach that combines the best of standardised and user-generated metadata. Such metadata is pertinent in order to make information resources findable, discoverable and usable by users. In this regard, the emerging metadata principles of enriching, linking, openness and filtering (Alemu, 2014) play a paramount importance. This workshop aims to bring the current metadata landscape in libraries in context, with particular emphasis on emerging theory/principles and best practices covering:

The theory of enriching and filtering.

Metadata enriching through RDA (Hands on - The RDA Toolkit and implementation of RDA at Southampton Solent University)

Metadata filtering through FRBR (practical issues that cataloguers face in FRBRising their catalogue).